Tracy Ryan Mindfulness

17/09/2021

19/12/2018

A unique opportunity to participate in a 'Bearing Witness' retreat day this coming Nollaig na mBan in Dublin.

Mindfulness & Bearing Witness Retreat Day: Bearing Witness to Violence against Women & Girls Location: Date: Sunday, January 6th (Nollaig na mBan), 2019. Time: 10.30am-6pm Cost: By donation of €40 minimum* Facilitator: Niamh Barrett Course Type: Bearing Witness: Mindfulness & Social Engagement Ven...

03/03/2017

A residential wheatgrass juicing and detoxing weekend with Mindfulness Meditation, this April in Co Wicklow, Ireland. Places still available!

20/09/2016

Getting started with meditation.

Learning how to meditate is straightforward, and the benefits can come quickly. Here, we offer basic tips to get you started on a path towards greater equanimity, acceptance and joy.

03/09/2016

Being gentle with ourselves ....

Are you overly self-critical? Learn how to lessen the voices of doubt.

01/09/2016

A gentle reminder that all of our thoughts and feelings are allowed and permitted to be here however they appear to be.

Jeff talks about your true nature as Permission, the wide open space in which EVERY thought and feeling is unconditionally welcome...

16/06/2016

26-28th August 2016, Silent Meditation retreat with Tracy Ryan at Passaddhi Meditation Centre, Adrigole, Co Cork, Ireland.

This retreat will have a focus on Inner Meditative Listening and is entitled:

"Coming home to Ourselves"

Contemporary daily living brings a barrage of commitments, activity and distraction to most of us. Time can feel very limited, there's a lot to be done and a lot of pressure to get it all done well. A side effect of this busyness is that a deeper and more intimate part of ourselves can get forgotten about and overlooked.

A retreat is a time to reconnect to ourselves and to tend to our inner worlds. Practising together we will gently open up to and receive our experiences with an attitude of kindness and interest. By encountering those aspects of ourselves that call out for our attention, that need to be listened to, held and embraced we learn to give ourselves permission to be as we are. We come home to ourselves and to all that we are beneath the outer roles and endless activities that we perform in the world.

The retreat begins Friday evening 6pm until Sunday lunch 12.30. We will practise together in formal sitting and informal walking periods all in silence. It is suitable for beginners and non beginners.

To book a place please contact Marjo at Passaddhi: marjo.metta@gmail.com

http://passaddhi.com/retreats.html

Passaddhi is a small meditation centre outside Adrigole on the Beara Peninsula in the southwest of Ireland.

25/05/2015

Just 27 minutes per day can make a huge difference to our lives, study shows just how...

Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University.  The study was led by a Harvard-affiliated team of researchers based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the team’s MRI scans do…

26/04/2015

Free Mindfulness Evening

Tomorrow Monday April 27th at the Grand Hotel, Fermoy, there will be a free Mindfulness information evening. I will explain what Mindfulness is, we will practise together and discuss what is involved in the forthcoming 8-week course answering any questions you may have. All are welcome. Please call me, Tracy Ryan, at 086-1051746 for further information.

25/04/2015

One of the most renowned meditation teachers in the West today Sharon Salzberg is in Cork this coming Thursday.

With stress and overwhelm being an all too common feature of modern-day living, Sharon Salzberg will describe how we can rediscover the resiliency of the human spirit.

24/04/2015

I did my first 10-day retreat in 2006 at Passadhi, a small Buddhist retreat centre in Adrigole on the Beara penninsula. Having had a few brief encounters with meditation - a weekend retreat in a Tibetan Buddhist centre and a day-long workshop in the Zen tradition - I was curious to discover what could I expect by dedicating this longer amount of time to it. Would I notice some changes in myself and my way of being? Would I be calmer, more relaxed, more wise, compassionate perhaps? What would happen? I felt nervous to see would I actually be able to do it.

Having for some time struggled with professional direction, a move to a new city at the end of a relationship had also brought much change and uncertainty. I wasn't sure how to best deal with the array of difficult thoughts and emotions that were arising. After trying conventional healing approaches, I decided to explore meditation in a deeper way to see if this would provide me with the tools I needed to manage better what I was experiencing. Of primary concern was my busy active mind, constantly hopping from one thought to another, worrying and trying to fix my relationships, work and financial issues. How would I control it all and come up with solutions for these problems? I wasn't sure I'd be such a 'good' meditator.

Following the instructions on the retreat I became reassured that it wasn't actually necessary to stop my mind at all, but I could learn to work with it. Practising over and over again to notice, become alert to and aware of what was happening in each moment in my inner world, looking to see what I was feeling or thinking and noticing the attitude and relationship to my experience, helped to deepen a path of self-discovery. I became interested and intrigued to see all the ways I communicated with myself and what it was that occupied me on a deeper level. Bringing my current experience into focus with gentle persistence, I discovered that I was constantly returning to myself. And through this I found a refuge, a sense of rest, and a practial way of 'being with' what was arising in any given moment. Now more open, spacious and kind to myself and what was happening, I actually started to befriend myself. I was hooked!

Travelling to Thailand to immerse myself further in the practise, I entered a Buddhist forest monastery and took temporary ordination, as is customary in the Theravaden tradition. Guided by a Canadian monk, I stayed for three months practising meditative sitting and walking, looking and listening to what was happening in each moment. After this, and over a seven year period, I regularly visited the south east of India and a holy mountain and ashram (or spiritual community) supportive of my meditative enquiry. In 2009-10, I trained as a Mindfulness facilitator with the Institute of Mindfulness Based Approaches, Germany and have since offered practical 8-week, 4-week and individual programmes to people from all backgrounds in Fermoy, Bantry and Cork city.

23/04/2015

Medical best practice is for people with history of depression to take antidepressants for two years – but cognitive therapy may be equally effective

21/04/2015

Mindfulness is a way of Being, connecting us to a deeper sense of ourselves and our present moment experience. Scientific research has demonstrated its many possible benefits in coping with stress, depression, sleeping problems, self-esteem and confidence, addictions, physical pain and illness, equipping us with a tool to deal wisely with these and the many other difficulties and challenges of everyday life. Through sustained practice of mindfulness we return to this, our immediately accessible ground of being, bringing more calm, clarity and contentment into our lives.

In 2009-10, I trained as a Mindfulness facilitator with the Institute of Mindfulness Based Approaches, Germany and have since offered practical 8-week, 4-week and individual programmes to people from all backgrounds in Fermoy, Bantry and Cork city.

From May 6th – June 24th, 2015 another course will be held at The Grand Hotel, Fermoy on Wednesday evenings from 7 – 9.30 pm. Part of this includes an individual pre- and post-course meeting, as well as a full-day workshop on Sunday June 14th. On Monday April 27th, there will be a free information evening at which I will explain what is involved in the course and answer any questions you may have. All are welcome. Please call me at 086-1051746 for further information.

20/04/2015

18/04/2015

8-week Mindfulness course starting May 6th at The Grand Hotel, Fermoy.

From May 6th – June 24th, my next 8-week course will be held at The Grand Hotel, Fermoy on Wednesday evenings from 7 – 9.30 pm. Part of this includes an individual pre- and post-course meeting, as well as a full-day workshop on Sunday June 14th.

On Monday April 27th, there will be a free information evening at which I will explain what is involved in the course and answer any questions you may have. All are welcome. Please call me at 086-1051746 for further information.